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- 2013
- TV-14
- Submarine Deluxe
- 1 h 29 m
- 2013
- TV-14
- Submarine Deluxe
- 1 h 29 m
Summary Casting By puts the spotlight on filmmaking’s unsung heroes – the casting director, taking us on a fast-paced journey through the last half century of Hollywood history from an entirely new perspective.
Directed By: Tom Donahue
- 2013
- TV-14
- Submarine Deluxe
- 1 h 29 m
- 2013
- TV-14
- Submarine Deluxe
- 1 h 29 m
Casting By
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7.0
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Summary Casting By puts the spotlight on filmmaking’s unsung heroes – the casting director, taking us on a fast-paced journey through the last half century of Hollywood history from an entirely new perspective.
Directed By: Tom Donahue
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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83% Positive
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
70
83% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
17% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
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This film reveals not just how integral casting directors are to the creative process of filmmaking, but really how important they have been in shaping the history of American cinema.
This is an illuminating close-up on a vital cog in the moviemaking machine and a fresh perspective on key episodes in the birth of the New Hollywood.
While Dougherty clearly had an almost eerie sense of how a particular actor might inhabit a part, this film also shows that she may have single-handedly created a filmmaking craft and then made it indispensable.
A vivid reminder of the hand-in-glove importance of right actor/right role — and the indispensability of those casting mavens who helped make movie history. Good stuff.
Casting By is also something of an elegy for a lost era, when talent, even at its rawest, stood far above prettiness as the primary reason for getting the part.
A look into one of the most invisible, and crucial, of cinematic disciplines. Using the seminal casting director Marion Dougherty as a subject, the film walks us through the intricacies of casting, with insight from Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, Robert Redford and others.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 7 User Ratings
7.0
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 7 User Ratings
7.0
71% Positive
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
14% Mixed
1 Rating
1 Rating
14% Negative
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Production Company
CreativeChaos vmg,
HBO Documentary Films,
Tashtego Films
Release Date Jul 26, 2013
Duration 1 h 29 m
Rating TV-14
Genres
Awards
National Board of Review, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Gracie Allen Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
